Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 14:48:04 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> To: Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> Cc: Nora Etukudo <nora@sappho-net.de>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: OT: sparc? Message-ID: <20010904144420.N67583-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> In-Reply-To: <20010904095701.B72659@electricjellyfish.net>
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On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Garrett Rooney wrote: >On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 03:49:10PM +0200, Nora Etukudo wrote: >> This might be very offtopic. >> >> Every now and than I see commit messages from the cvs-all list, which >> belong to files with '/src/sys/sparc64/' in their path. Does this mean, >> it's possible to install FreeBSD on an 'UltraSparc 5'? >> >> (I don't have experience with systems other than Intel based ones, but I >> would like to see an unused U5 with FreeBSD here. :-)) > >For better information, you could ask on freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org, >but from what I've heard, it's a work in progress at this point. It's >closing in on single user mode though, so at some point in the near >future you will be able to install FreeBSD on your UltraSparc. In the meantime you could run NetBSD/sparc64 on it, which is quite mature at this point in relation to the FreeBSD/sparc64 code. See http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/sparc64/ for more information. -- "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. There might be a law against it by that time." -- /usr/games/fortune, 07/30/2001 Brandon D. Valentine <bandix at looksharp.net> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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